Strategy acquired 4,871 bitcoin for approximately $329.9 million on April 6, 2026, as Michael Saylor declared that bitcoin has won and that the asset’s four-year market cycle is finished.

Bitcoin hit a session peak of $70,275, pushing its market cap back above $1.4 trillion. The broader crypto economy climbed to $2.46 trillion.

Mike Belshe, CEO of Bitgo, one of the largest cryptocurrency custody providers, has proposed using a public blockchain to solve state and federal fraud. On social media, he stated that citizen monitoring alone would be enough to control the flow of these funds.

Circle’s Arc platform will launch with post-quantum signature support to protect

A set of bills to formalize and regulate crypto transactions was introduced to Russia’s State Duma last week. The legislation amends existing laws to allow both qualified and non-qualified investors to access digital assets while establishing reporting and tax duties for Russian residents.

Apple has pulled the decentralized messaging application Bitchat from its China

Polymarket will become La Liga’s official prediction market partner in the U.S. and Canada, giving it exclusive rights to use the league’s and each club’s intellectual property when displaying soccer matches. La Liga becomes the first European football league to partner with Polymarket.

Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto news from Latin America over the past week. In this edition, the Central Bank of Brazil mulls taking Pix global, Mercado Libre ends mercado coin, and Pix gets political before Brazil’s presidential elections.

Google Deepmind researchers have published the first systematic framework cataloguing how malicious web content can manipulate, hijack, and weaponize autonomous AI agents against their own users.

Japan’s regulated crypto market continues expanding under strict oversight, with over 100 listed tokens across registered crypto platforms, operating within a tightly controlled legal framework set by the Financial Services Agency.

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor and economist Peter Schiff clashed over bitcoin and MSTR performance, highlighting a growing divide over whether long-term demand or recent returns better define the asset’s value.

On Easter Sunday, President Donald Trump posted a profanity-laced message on Truth Social demanding Iran open the Strait of Hormuz or face military strikes by Tuesday, rattling commodity and equity markets heading into the April 6 trading week. While equity futures pointed lower and oil spiked on geopolitical fear, the crypto market moved in the opposite direction.

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Last year, Japan moved to widen the reach of its crypto travel rule regime, signaling that the country’s regulatory focus is shifting further toward compliance, transaction traceability, and cross-border surveillance.

Gold dropped to $4,623 per ounce this week after the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 178,000 new nonfarm payroll jobs in March 2026, far exceeding consensus estimates and cooling expectations for near-term Federal Reserve rate cuts.